Pause for Parrots

The flock convenes for a Friday dispatch. They recap some excellent Trump nicknames, give an update on WSB and the inherently political nature of capitalist collectivism, and debate the validity of mandatory vaccination requirements at work.

The boys are back in town. They parse through some conspiracy thinking surrounding Capitol police suicides, get into the downfall of Kimberly Gilfoyle, and discuss a very specific way that China is way ahead of the United States. Plus Joe Biden is wasting no time in writing a bunch of executive orders and the media totally dropped the ball on the Gamestop story.

The guys get together for a comprehensive primer on WallStreet bets, Gamestop, and the ongoing battle between institutional money and the American public. They dive deep into the history and culture of the WSB subreddit and how our long simmering resentment at Wall Street is turning into full-fledged fury at the architects of the 2008 financial crisis.

The guys cover some of the biggest and weirdest headlines of the week. Marjorie Taylor Greene is already trying to impeach Joe Biden, people are protesting in the streets in Russia, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gets banned from Twitter for threatening to kill Trump. Plus Politifact is back on their bullshit and Parler is still mortally wounded.

Two-thirds of the three-headed parrot monster convene for a special Friday dispatch. They bid farewell to the Trump presidency with some final thoughts on his pardons, check-in on an interesting Fox News pivot, and have a conversation about where QAnon believers go from here, and much more.

Another week, another bunch of pretty bad news. The guys cover some follow-up stories from the Capitol insurrection, react to some audio from inside the building, try to parse the story about panic buttons being removed, and argue about whether Elon Musk should be held personally liable for the death of a bunch of Jamie Lynn Spears' cats.

The guys reconvene on an earlier conversation about the corporate censorship impulse that seems to be steadily accelerating over the last few years, but particularly in the last couple of weeks. They recap some of what's happened since the Capitol incident on January 6th, discuss whether or not any of the developments have changed their stances, and make a case for why putting more faith in social media behemoths might not be the answer.

The guy's have had a week to parse out the fallout from last week's Capitol siege. They tackle the Parler shut down, try to follow the increasingly frantic QAnon breadcrumbs, and Dylan gets mad on pod about how stupid this makes conservatives look.

The church of perch was going to record a year in review on Wednesday, but then shit hit the fan, so here's a conversation from Wednesday in the thick of the chaos about what happened and why, whether any parallels can be drawn between the riots from the past summer, and what it means for the country going forward.

The first week of the new year brings plenty of garbage for the guys to break down - from angry Americans vandalizing the homes of Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi to an update on the Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner and his poor, blameless dog, to the effect of lock down measures on the amount of mass shooting occurrences.